The family eventually paid them $350,000, after negotiating down their initial demand of more than twice that, he said. A prominent doctor was kidnapped and killed in northern Afghanistan, his family said. Despite the payment, the kidnappers then killed Alemi, leaving his body in the street, his son said. “My father was badly tortured, there are signs of harm on his body,” Roheen Alemi said. He said two of those abducted were rescued but that Alemi was killed before the rescue.

Source: The Telegraph November 20, 2021 20:12 UTC